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Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'A research on Faraday's "steel and alloys"' by Robert Abbott Hadfield

Reference number: RR/43/48

Date: 1931

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Sectional committee: Engineering sciences

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Part one should be printed in full but part two should be referred to a 'competent metallurgical expert'. The paper is historic in nature but interesting enough to be published.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 1931.

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RR/43/48
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1931
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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3 pages
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James Alfred Ewing

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James Alfred Ewing, Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'A research on Faraday's "steel and alloys"' by Robert Abbott Hadfield, 1931, RR/43/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_43_48/referees-report-by-james-alfred-ewing-on-a-paper-a-research-on-faradays-steel-and-alloys-by-robert-abbott-hadfield, accessed on 20 July 2025

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